Inflexible Friend

Written by Adam Smith Institute | Friday, November 26th, 1999

‘Inflexible Friend’ examines the likely impact of the governments IR35 proposals to force many self – employed contractors into the tax net of full time employment. Professor Burton points out that all of today’s advanced economies are primarily service based. Britain, being no exception to this, is placing future economic success in jeopardy with these proposals, possibly resulting in “the virtual emasculation of the self employment sector of the UK economy”.